This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have destroyed a neighboring planet, revealing a rare and ...

Scientists using a telescope in Hawaii have discovered a never-before-seen dwarf planet lurking within the ring of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. The small new world -- temporarily named ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a nearby planet, triggering strange X-ray radiation, which unveiled the star's ...

The latest data suggests there may be "a subtle, regular change in the X-ray signal every 2.9 hours, providing evidence for the remains of a planet exceptionally close to the white dwarf," the CXC ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf ... occurred every three hours. That’s evidence, the team suggests, of the shredded remains of a planet ...